we re not kind of an outfit, it s easier for them to collaborate with us. so, all of these things are important to us as we have these exercises. so, i say this is a very worthwhile enterprise that will keep going. i tip my hat to my friend mike who really has been leading us in these efforts. and now i say as also the slogan, i guess you call it this morning, maybe it s what the navy says. i think it s a very good phrase. a global force for good. that s what we ve been practicing, a global force for good. thank you. (applause) thank you, sir. thank you. thank you very much, sir. (applause) and for all of you, tomorrow we re going to have the former secretary defense william perry speak. and the final speaker tomorrow will be the commander of north com, it will be the first time the northern command. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to day two of the senior leader seminar for san francisco fleet week 2012. we had a great day yesterday and we re going to have an even greate
and the fleet week association has invite and had there are so many of them here, i m very proud of our neighborhood emergency response team training folks that are here today. my hat is off to you because we couldn t do it without your dead gaytion dedication and volunteerism. so, thank you to our nert members here today. (applause) and i m so proud to continue to be partnering with our military personnel when it comes to humantarian assistance and disaster relief. i was literally in awe on wednesday on ocean beach with the landing of the lcac and also to take a look at the capabilities and the resources that we would have available to us in the event of a large-scale emergency. my hat is off to all of you with just how well you ve planned, your multitude capabilities, and as secretary schultz said i ll take a note from his confidence of display. to see how you set up in an hour a field hospital to take care of patients, not run of the mill patients, but critically wound
couldn t take place without all of the heavy lifting and hard work done by the san francisco fleet week association. so, thank you to general myatt for your vision. this is your three of not only the celebration events, but what you spoke to earlier. also the executive director of the fleet week association lewis lubin. thank you very much. (applause) i ve had the pleasure of serving in the san francisco fire department for 22 years. it will benign years in nine since i stepped up and took the role of chief of the department. i continue to be proud of that. and i can say which i said earlier in the week, the coordination and the collaboration only gets better each year that we do this. and i d also like to acknowledge the department of emergency management and all of her staff for coordinating so seamlessly with the fleet week association in addition to all of the other events that we have that s going on this week. so, thank you to our department of emergency management. (
what we are w dough and how we fit together. i think one of the real challenges, my observation, is civil authorities getting a full grip on everything that s going to be necessary to put together a sound response at the local level, and then herding all the cats that are in this pretty complex environment and trying to get them moving in a common direction. general baldwin? first, i m very, very encouraged at the direction the department of defense has taken in changing the way that we do support the civil authorities. and the evolution, the problem that came out of the l.a. riots that were highlighted during hurricane katrina, we had two milltrix out there, the active force and responding. with changes in the law and changes in focus and direction we re starting to fix a lot of that and come together as one joint team to be able to better serve the people here in the state of california and the rest the nation in times of disaster. but there is work that needs to be don
it was a the kind of building block we look for in an economic and security commons. just as when we in san francisco see not only what the military can bring to the party and help us with, not only how we can interact with the military, but also we say to ourselves, it s also up to us to do everything we can for ourselves. we re not kind of an outfit, it s easier for them to collaborate with us. so, all of these things are important to us as we have these exercises. so, i say this is a very worthwhile enterprise that will keep going. i tip my hat to my friend mike who really has been leading us in these efforts. and now i say as also the slogan, i guess you call it this morning, maybe it s what the navy says. i think it s a very good phrase. a global force for good. that s what we ve been practicing, a global force for good. thank you. (applause) thank you, sir. thank you. thank you very much, sir. (applause) and for all of you, tomorrow we re going to have the former se